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The Legend Behind the People Who Moved the Monoliths of Stonehenge
Death of Arthur and Mordred
From The Boy’s King Arthur, N.C. Wyeth 1922.
Digital Scan / Book Illustration - DavepapeBot / Wikimedia
The ’sarsen stones’ for the great stone circle at Stonehenge came from southern Wales. Their transport to Salisbury Plain brought the encapsulated sacred power of an unknown Welsh hero to southern Britain thereby to ensure the mythic potency of Stonehenge. Join us on an archeological dig back to the time of the legendary King Arthur, where we’ll meet a band of Bronze Age bowmen and rather extraordinary kind of construction project manager.
King Arthur and Salisbury Plain –
Why were the Bluestones intended for Stonehenge moved from southern Wales to Salisbury Plain? This is fascinating and important question because there are large sarsen-like stones much nearer to the Stonehenge site. There must have been something very special about these bluestones and their original location. There is an important stone circle in the Presili Mountains of Southern Wales known as Carn Menyn that is a landmark from land and sea, and was a sacred place in antiquity. At some point in the time, it became known as Bedd Arthur, and was added to the list of possible burial places for the legendary King Arthur. The extraordinary effort to move bluestones that weighed several tons each would need exceptional impetus and extraordinary motivation in order for the astronomer-priests to effectively organize, propose and convince powerful regional tribal kings to order up the essential manpower for however long it is needed.
One possibility that provides a powerful mythic rationale is that an extreme, sacred energy of an ancient Neolithic hero was located at Carn Menyn, and was literally embodied in the stones and their architectural alignment. For reasons still unknown it became an imperative to move that sacred power from southern Wales to Salisbury Plain c.2300 BC. If this legend is believed and accepted, if the astronomer-priests had the requisite charisma and oratory skill, then the project can be activated. What was to be moved was not large heavy boulders but supremely condensed magic and powerful sacred energy.
Merlin Builds Stonehenge / Roman de Brut, c.1150-55
Written in Norman by the poet Wace, Roman de Brut is a ‘history’ of new British territories of the Anglo-Normans. It includes a life of King Arthur and goes back to the mythical Brutus of Troy.
Digital Image / illuminated manuscript - Dsmdgold / Wikipedia
Much later in history, the Welsh bards either chose or were ordered by their kings to mythologize King Arthur because a defeated Cymri (Wales) people needed that to be done in the 8th through 11th centuries AD. These most skilled poets may have chosen to cloak their newly transformed King Arthur with the timeless legend of a Neolithic pre-Cymri hero of ancient Wales whose sacred energy had moved to Salisbury Plain long ago with the great Presili bluestones. Such an extraordinary endeavor requires an exceptional project director and site manager. What better choice than Merlin as Geoffrey of Monmouth relates in 1136 in his Historia Regium Britanniae. No matter that critical historical dates do not match and are badly out of joint; we are in the realm of magic. Thus did King Arthur leave the historical identity of a Cymri king and warrior who fought fiercely against invading Germanic Saxons, and enter the timeless universe of the mythical.
The Boscombe Bowmen –
Incredibly, recent excavations by Wessex Archeology Ltd have found burials of some of the men who may have worked on this grandest building phase of Stonehenge, possibly as site managers who directed work crews. Lady Luck certainly tilted the odds; it is hard to imagine otherwise. An archeologist cannot decide to go out one day and find the guys who built megalithic Stonehenge. They could set out, but what beside snickering laughter would follow them down the road?
In May 2003, a dig for a new water pipe accidentally uncovered a Bronze Age burial at Boscombe Down, and Wessex Archeology Ltd was quickly brought in. Boscombe Down is only 6 km from Stonehenge and as we await C-14 laboratory results, age for this site as deduced from artifacts is c.2300 BC. In the grave were three adult males, a teenage male, three children and a total of five skulls. Beaker pots held food and drink, provisions for the afterlife as the deceased journeyed through the Underworld. A boar’s tusk and bone toggle were rare trade goods from Central Europe. The presence of beautifully made flint arrowheads earned this (group? family?) the name of the Boscombe Bowmen. Perhaps the adult men were archers after all. Two of the men had died before reaching the age of 30; the oldest male was at most 40 years old.
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